Africa Football Discussion Thread || Current discussion: African teams at Qatar.

[Boristhecat]

I also believe that FIFA is obliged to take some action regarding these lasers. They are dangerous to the eye, in fact, they are weapons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzY30Ah8bKY - Here is a video where such a laser bursts 100 balloons standing in a row.
And here is the face of Salah before he took the penalty

It's a shame and unfair play that the referee should have stopped the game. With lasers in their eyes, how could they shoot such crucial penalties? It's unbelievable how they let the laser thing go. It is FIFA's duty to investigate that matter and to penalize Senegal's football association for their failure to control their fans. In its World Cup playoff match against Senegal on Tuesday, the Egyptian football association asserted that its national team was subjected to racism. There should be investigation and punishment for any such attacks.

Yes, I also think that the execution of a penalty in such conditions when the players of one of the teams are shined a laser in the face is unfair and should be stopped by the referee. As far as I know, according to FIFA rules, the entire responsibility for ensuring order and security lies with the host side, so the Senegalese football federation should be heavily fined.

[Sirait]

Congratulations to the teams that have qualified for the FIFA World Cup at Qater.
But the performance from the Nigeria team was not that bad but a bit below good, news I heard after the game was that, the fans was angry and got the stadium in Nigeria messed up.
News is that that stadium has been banned.

In my opinion, there are many matches in the African zone qualifiers that should be rematched = Egypt vs Senegal and Cameroon vs Algeria too.

The Algerian Football Federation (FAF) has appealed to FIFA to demand a rematch against Cameroon in the 2022 World Cup Qualification playoffs.

it's really sad to see the teams that failed to qualify due to injustice.

[Anguwa]

A lot of people are complaining about Senegal fans using laser, it seems like most of you guys forgot that Egypt also used it in the first leg of the qualifier, although it's illegal to use it, and some folks are calling for rematch, quite funny though, I'm happy Senegal qualified, Sadio Mane especially, and Senegal has a lot of top players playing in big teams and they play good football, in my opinion they are the only team among the African nations who will exceed probably to the Semi finals

Senegal is one of the countries I predict to be very competitive in the 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar. Senegal has a team that can make Africa proud, and I'm sure the continent as a whole will be delighted to have Senegal as a representative. They have a terrific team that knows what they're doing, and they're playing professional football. I wish all of Africa's nations the best of luck.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

A lot of people are complaining about Senegal fans using laser, it seems like most of you guys forgot that Egypt also used it in the first leg of the qualifier, although it's illegal to use it, and some folks are calling for rematch, quite funny though, I'm happy Senegal qualified, Sadio Mane especially, and Senegal has a lot of top players playing in big teams and they play good football, in my opinion they are the only team among the African nations who will exceed probably to the Semi finals

Yes they're our best bet in the competition, Egypt can't progress with their style of play. It only worked against Africa teams became they don't have very offensive players with that much quality that can cause mistakes from defenders. As for the rematch, that won't be happening, the Egyptian are forgetting this is African football and things happen differently here.  We have one of the most craziest fans, haven't they seen the video form the Nigerian game as fans express their anger.

Mo Salah could have easily protested and the penalty will be delay until those responsible for that offense will be caught and apprehended but no he didn't. Not trying to justify the actions of the senagal fans but what gas happened has happened, Egypt has lost and they should accept that and go back to the drawing board.

[KTChampions]

Even though Senegal qualified for the Qatar world cup but I am not at all happy, because of the behavior of their fans who are very unnatural, almost every match Egyptian players are rained with leser, in my personal opinion FIFA should punish the Senegal national team, if only the Egyptian national team players didn't Senegalese fans rained leser on them, surely the end result would be different, but I respect the Egyptian fans in the first leg, Egyptian fans never made a noise, let alone bombarded Senegalese players with leser, I think FIFA should review the penalty shootout between Senegal and Egypt .

It's unrealistic. The referee did not stop the match and the result cannot be changed. But it would be good if FIFA took action against Senegal and all federations that cannot provide the necessary level of security during the games. I remember how they banned vuvuzelas and now you can’t hear them anywhere, it’s time to do it with lasers (they are already banned, but we need to be more strict to ensure that they are not in the stands).

[Ratash]

The level of corruption in the african football has reached another level and after what happened in the senegal egypt game, the referee in the cameroon algeria game was clearly on the visitors side and two penalties and a valid goal was not counted for the algerian team not to mention a fault before cameroon first goal i don't understand why fifa does not keep an eye on these kind of behaviors not only in african games we have seen such moments even in the world cup.

[hashrateproducts]

Even though Senegal qualified for the Qatar world cup but I am not at all happy, because of the behavior of their fans who are very unnatural, almost every match Egyptian players are rained with leser, in my personal opinion FIFA should punish the Senegal national team, if only the Egyptian national team players didn't Senegalese fans rained leser on them, surely the end result would be different, but I respect the Egyptian fans in the first leg, Egyptian fans never made a noise, let alone bombarded Senegalese players with leser, I think FIFA should review the penalty shootout between Senegal and Egypt .

Senegal fans were adamant to FIFA rules. They uses lasers on the faces of the Egyptian players, especially Egypt key player Mohammed Salah. I'm totally against it, FIFA should do something about it. Although they can't cancelled the game but can sanction Senegal for the behavior of their fans. Even the Qater world cup, their are going be a lot of challenges, I don't see any African countries lifting the cup. This year world cup is going be really tough, and their would be high competitions between countries.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

This year world cup is going be really tough, and their would be high competitions between countries.

I think that'll be too much asking an African nation to lift the trophy. We'll get there someday but currently we're not prepared for such glory although all nations going to the World cup are hoping on lifting the trophy. I think what the fans want is good football and not just been an extra going to the tournament. We need Africa teams to progress to later stages and also make a name for themselves. As for lifting the trophy nobody will question them for not lifting the trophy provided they can put in a good performance.

The only time the momentum was in favor of African was in 2010 when we hosted the world cup in South Africa. We could have used that advantage but we underperformed. I don't think any nation made it passed the group stages. African football is steadily growing and soon we'll be competing with the best country with so much rich football history.

[dothebeats]

Even though Senegal qualified for the Qatar world cup but I am not at all happy, because of the behavior of their fans who are very unnatural, almost every match Egyptian players are rained with leser, in my personal opinion FIFA should punish the Senegal national team, if only the Egyptian national team players didn't Senegalese fans rained leser on them, surely the end result would be different, but I respect the Egyptian fans in the first leg, Egyptian fans never made a noise, let alone bombarded Senegalese players with leser, I think FIFA should review the penalty shootout between Senegal and Egypt .

Senegal fans were adamant to FIFA rules. They uses lasers on the faces of the Egyptian players, especially Egypt key player Mohammed Salah. I'm totally against it, FIFA should do something about it. Although they can't cancelled the game but can sanction Senegal for the behavior of their fans. Even the Qater world cup, their are going be a lot of challenges, I don't see any African countries lifting the cup. This year world cup is going be really tough, and their would be high competitions between countries.

Doubt FIFA will do anything about it. The problem is they don't enforce their rules very strictly, that's why fans can get away with things like that and still be proud that they disrespected the sport. Football is a very popular game on a lot of countries in the world, and it isn't hard to spot fans such as those who pointed lasers to Salah on crucial moments.

Sanctioning won't do Senegal any good, and it might even worsen the already grim situation. Perhaps FIFA security should just up their game and be strict with what people can bring in the stadium.

[Smartvirus]

Sanctioning won't do Senegal any good, and it might even worsen the already grim situation. Perhaps FIFA security should just up their game and be strict with what people can bring in the stadium.

When it comes to sanction Senegal, I'm not sure that would be the best decision as, the Senegalese team could actually claim not to be responsible for the actions of there fans and that's true. These fans act out of there emotions and you can't blame a team for that.
The best that could b4 done and would have some effect is what you rightly suggested with the FIFA securities on checking the items fans carry along to the games. At least its doable and depending on how serious the FIFA security take up the duty, it could work just fine.
I would have said the stadiums might be of low standard but, if it can host international games and even in the heat of the pandemic was able to function in accordance with Covid-19 principles then, checking fans won't be a hard job to do.

[dataispower]

Big names like Salah, Mahrez, Hakimi and Ziyech all failed nto qualify nfor the World Cup.
The deed has already been done, all Africans should support them follow African's ahead and let go of whatever beef they had.
In the Nigerian game against Ghana, players like Lookman etc shouldn't have been started cis they know less about the rivalry and history between this two countries.

[BIT-BENDER]

It's such a pity to see African football hasn't still gotten organized even till this level. The first leg game between Nigeria and Ghana saw Ghana allowing more can than the stadium capacity could hold, and knowing how Intense the game could go is like sitting on a ticking bomb, and the second leg saw fans of the home thing erupting into a catastrophic raid, that saw the destruction of property and few injured, also Senegal versus Egypt match was very much similar if not worse.
When would African football grow, this is so sad.

[GxSTxV]

Big names like Salah, Mahrez, Hakimi and Ziyech all failed nto qualify nfor the World Cup.
The deed has already been done, all Africans should support them follow African's ahead and let go of whatever beef they had.
In the Nigerian game against Ghana, players like Lookman etc shouldn't have been started cis they know less about the rivalry and history between this two countries.

Hakimi and ziyech are playing for morroco national team and they are qualified for world cup. What happened in these matches of qualifications is not acceptable we saw how the conditions effected egypte national team from the beginning of the match we saw how senegal fans used illegal lisers bothering egypt players especially in penalties, and i believe that egypt has always opened a dispute with fifa against this.
Also the same story with algeria when the referee canceled a legit goal for algeria and didn't give them a penalty as well. While he counted an unfair goal for cameroon.

[Leo]

A lot of people are complaining about Senegal fans using laser, it seems like most of you guys forgot that Egypt also used it in the first leg of the qualifier, although it's illegal to use it, and some folks are calling for rematch, quite funny though, I'm happy Senegal qualified, Sadio Mane especially, and Senegal has a lot of top players playing in big teams and they play good football, in my opinion they are the only team among the African nations who will exceed probably to the Semi finals

Yes they're our best bet in the competition, Egypt can't progress with their style of play. It only worked against Africa teams became they don't have very offensive players with that much quality that can cause mistakes from defenders. As for the rematch, that won't be happening, the Egyptian are forgetting this is African football and things happen differently here.  We have one of the most craziest fans, haven't they seen the video form the Nigerian game as fans express their anger.

Mo Salah could have easily protested and the penalty will be delay until those responsible for that offense will be caught and apprehended but no he didn't. Not trying to justify the actions of the senagal fans but what gas happened has happened, Egypt has lost and they should accept that and go back to the drawing board.

I think if it was possible for the two teams to qualify they really deserve it, the two matches they played as of recent are very interesting, the qualifier also looks like a final match, both teams played fantastic football but unfortunately only one team can qualify
Mo Sallah was very confident that he would score I was expecting him to play the last penalty but it seems like the Egyptian trusted him to score after senegal had lost their first penalty, unfortunately Sallah disappointed them, Egypt would have been more OK to qualify than the Ghanaian team

[yayayo]

Algeria apparently wants to have replayed the game against Cameroon. According to Algeria's management and players, bad decisions have been made by the arbitration. Unsportsmanlike? I think the committee will leave it at that and not let the game be replayed. Algeria should have just finished it at home, they had already won 0-1 away. If they really will play the match again, then it would be really falsifying the tournament.

ya.ya.yo!

[Lordhermes]

Senegal fans displayed a recalcitrant behavior in the game against Egypt which they eventually won. The game was a difficult one, I blamed senefal fans for the defeat of Egypt. They pointed green lights lasers on the faces of Egyptian players during the penalty shootouts. FIFA should fine and sanction the Senegal team for the violation of the rules by their fans. Senegal came out victorious after the penalty shootouts with a 3-1 Win over Egypt. Senegal have successfully sealed a place in Qater world cup

[Agbe]

I am sorry to say this, I am not a racist but I have seen this issue in plenty pitch. African teams play real football but the issue is the referees in the world cups. Just like what happened in the match between Nigeria and Argentina in 2018 world cup.
https://www.goal.com/en/news/mikel-claims-nigeria-denied-clear-penalty-after-rojo-handled/nvxlqtpylwde1j1kgxc2sfv36

2022 world cup has come again, I pray that this time, the white referees should do well. And Africa has produced and prepare it  five (5) teams in the tournament.
Ghana
Cameroon
Morocco
Tunisia
Senegal.

These teams, I am expecting Morocco to top the league. Nigeria which the expectation of must the people to qualify for the world cup Qatar qualifiers, 2022 was disqualified with home away. So, all predictions and odds are on Morocco.

[Crytpo-Guy]

Senegal fans displayed a recalcitrant behavior in the game against Egypt which they eventually won. The game was a difficult one, I blamed senefal fans for the defeat of Egypt. They pointed green lights lasers on the faces of Egyptian players during the penalty shootouts. FIFA should fine and sanction the Senegal team for the violation of the rules by their fans. Senegal came out victorious after the penalty shootouts with a 3-1 Win over Egypt. Senegal have successfully sealed a place in Qater world cup

though it was a unpleasant decision by the Senegal fans, they go against the law. Pointing green laser's at the face of the Egyptian players was a substandard decision, a ironic act they shouldn't have act in such manner, I think they deserve a sanction the football federation's needs to look into it.

[D-law]

Senegal fans displayed a recalcitrant behavior in the game against Egypt which they eventually won. The game was a difficult one, I blamed senefal fans for the defeat of Egypt. They pointed green lights lasers on the faces of Egyptian players during the penalty shootouts. FIFA should fine and sanction the Senegal team for the violation of the rules by their fans. Senegal came out victorious after the penalty shootouts with a 3-1 Win over Egypt. Senegal have successfully sealed a place in Qater world cup

This is how it should be, you have to show agression frommtje start to the end of the game.
Congratulations to them.as they have moved to represent Africa , African Champions at the world Cup.
I'm pretty sure they'll have a good time their and bring glory back to Africa.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

When would African football grow, this is so sad.

This isn't about Africa football growing but fans controlling themselves. We also experience same kind of behavior from western fans. Haven't you seen clips of fans obstructing clubs games through violent behaviors. In Africa hardly will you see any one running into the field even though we have some big names in club/international football. Atleast our crazy comes after the game and not during the game. I'm not justifying the action of the fans but fans will always be fans.

Watch the European games and you'll see racist chanting and all sorts of recism but you won't find that among the African fans even though we have our differences. Nigeria fans reacting the way they did, is due to the frustration in the county and not that match itself. Many people came over so they can have some kind of break (happiness) from all that's happening in the country but our national team also disappointed us.